What is a Cafe? What is a Restaurant?
A little while ago we made the realization that we had not raised the price on our amazing pizza for more than two years…. Well, a similar realization has recently struck!
We are more than a bakery… Cafés typically serve coffee and tea, and the baked goods are simply brought in for re-sale. Bakeries are where one buys fresh products at a counter and leaves. Bubby Rose’s Bakery & Café is a place where one gets service beyond the norm for a bakery: Staff provide a number of services that include making fantastic coffees, grilling house-made sandwiches to order, providing plates and cutlery, washing huge amounts of dishes, and advising customers on the ingredients and wonders of various products. We like to think of it like having 350 to 450 people as house guests every day. You can imagine the cleanup! (Aside from housekeeping and baking, did you know that we also make all of our savoury food items?
It costs the business a great deal of money to offer the services that we provide beyond simply attending to folks at a counter. Cleaning tables, re-stocking the pop cooler and coffee station, and sorting through the bins of recycling, garbage and compost to ensure the proper placement of “stuff”.
Naively, we did not foresee this reality when we began Bubby Rose’s Bakery. All we wanted to do was, and is, make great food to please people. As the cost of labour rose, we could not figure out what was happening to the “bottom line”. Until recently, that is. We have been offering café/restaurant quality service at bakery prices.
It costs a lot to hire and train the best! Our Staff are worth every penny of what they earn – we simply have to make sure that our prices reflect the fact that we are closer to a restaurant than a bakery. Thank you all for understanding the latest price increases!
Valerie, Mark, and our hardworking Staff